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Germans under the Allied Inquisition Part I

By J Bellinger.

Probably the one question most frequently asked by people who express an
interest in revisionism is: "Do you have any proof that Germans were
tortured in order to extract confessions?"

It has been my experience to discover that even non-revisionist authors
often pose this question as well, usually seeking to discredit the revisionist
viewpoint. Due to the cloak of secrecy shrouding the allies use of torture,
subterfuge, and intimidation, it has been quite difficult to document their
record of abuse. Nevertheless, over the years a number of able historians have
done an admirable job in exposing the facts relating to the shocking use of
torture by the allies. Admittedly, documentation is often difficult to obtain,
due to the fact that the allied "interrogators" generally covered
their tracks well, yet the persistence of historians and researchers
interested in the truth has begun to pay off. The information which follows
was culled from a variety of sources which should be easily accessible to
parties interested in further research. Precisely because the documentation
has been so scarce, a reconstruction of events will be necessary to prepare a
proper foundation for argumentation, as the larger picture at this point is
more important than the details. However, as the reader shall soon discover,
details shall not be lacking.

If I were to point to one particular event which to my mind signaled the
allies policy in regard to treatment of the vanquished, I would designate the
meeting of the so-called "Big Three" at Teheran in 1943. As described
by both Churchill and Elliott Roosevelt in their memoirs, "Stalin rose and
proposed a blood-curdling toast. The strength of the German army depended, he
said, upon fifty thousand high officers and technicians. His toast was a
salute to shooting them, "as fast as we can, all of them." Churchill
was horrified. Quick as a flash, he was on his feet; his face and neck were
red, says Elliott Roosevelt, who was present. He announced that British
conceptions of law and justice would never tolerate such butchery. Into this
breach stepped President Roosevelt. He had a compromise to suggest. Instead
of executing fifty thousand, perhaps "we should settle on a smaller number.
Shall we say 49,500?" All the Russians at the table roared with
laughter. So did the Americans, who were obliged to show proper appreciation
for their chiefs "humor." Churchill left the table." (1)

Undoubtedly, the Presidents little grim "joke" was a source
of great amusement for the Soviets, who were still laughing over the 14,000
Polish officers they had slain at Katyn, Miedjoye, and Kharkov Forest. Later,
one of President Roosevelts interpreters said of his emaciated, crippled
chief: "He looked sick, he acted sick, and he talked sick." (2)

Lest anyone think that the Presidents remark was made in jest,
consider that less than one year later he was willing to ratify the notorious "Morgenthau
Plan" , had it not been for the adamant objections of his Secretary of
War, Henry Stimson.

In order to fully appreciate the attitude of the allies in regard to the
treatment meted out to the defeated Germans, a brief review of events would be
in order. To those who might object that the allies were too "civilized"
to employ third degree methods on captured German officers to extract damning
"confessions", I believe that certain criteria should first be
investigated , presented, and addressed, namely:

1. How did the allies treat non-combatants? How were Germans treated who
had nothing to do with the waging of the war? What was the allies policy in
regard to women, the elderly, and in particular, German children?

2. How were German prisoners of war treated? Specifically, members of the
Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, etc. against whom no criminal charges had been preferred?

If the allies treated the defeated Germans with justice and equity, and can
be proven so by documentation and the actual historical record, then the
allegation that German POWs were tortured and mistreated falls flat on its
face.

Let us now examine the record: Germanys civilian population received
a foretaste of allied policy in 1940, when British pilots bombed a Berlin
schoolhouse, killing a number of children. The air strikes increased in
severity over the course of the war, culminating in the destruction of Dresden,
Hamburg, Berlin, Nuremberg, Munich, and other cities at a loss of probably half
a million lives. It was a common occurrence for allied pilots to bomb and
strafe columns of refugees and the homeless. For this reason, American and
British pilots earned the infamous sobriquet "terror-pilots" and were
often treated as such when caught by German civilians. Parachuting pilots were
often killed upon capture by German civilians who had often lost beloved
family members to the attacks of terror-bombers. The allies made it a point to
trace down the civilians responsible for these acts of righteous retribution
and summarily hanged them all, whenever and wherever they were found.

The allies were particularly sensitive concerning the shooting of 50 allied
fliers who had escaped from the Sagan POW camp in 1944. From the German point
of view, many of these fliers were warned that should they attempt any more
escapes, they would be shot. Aside from that, many of the escapees were caught
in civilian clothes or else in German uniforms, thus leading the German
authorities to conclude that they were spies. When one reflects on the fact
that members of Otto Skorzenys commando group, which infiltrated American
lines during the battle of the Bulge, were also shot upon capture even though
they were wearing German uniforms under the American gear, then the shooting of
the 50 terror fliers loses some of its punch. Nevertheless, German
officers were executed for this "crime" while the allied crime of
shooting the German "spies" went unpunished.

The shooting of Americans at Malmedy was given the widest publicity, and
those German units which participated in this battle were all brought before
the allied inquisition, notwithstanding the fact that the allies had, in one
incident shot down members of the Waffen SS in France in cold blood, and not one
of the responsible parties was ever brought to justice.

At Dachau, American soldiers lined German guards up against a wall and shot
them down without mercy. The Americans also allowed crazed inmates of the camp
to savagely murder other guards who were stationed there. Often these victims
were simply Wehrmacht officers who were left to guard the camp after the SS
personnel absconded.

When the allied armies first entered German territory, did the victorious "champions
of democracy" comport themselves with dignity and honor? Let the reader
be the judge. What follows is just an excerpt from volumes of documents
relating to the rampaging allied troops as they plundered, raped, and stole
from the defenseless German population. The one crime most often committed by
allied forces against German civilians in all sectors was forcible, violent
rape, which is evidenced by a selection of the following reports. Few of the
offenders were ever punished for this crime against women and children.

According to the publication "The U.S. Army in the Occupation of
Germany":

"Of all the crimes committed by U.S. troops, the best....documented was
rape, and it showed a "spiral increase" in the closing months of the
war. Between July 1942 and October 1945, 904 rape cases were charged in the
European theater, 552 of them in Germany. All told, 487 soldiers were tried
for rapes committed in the months of March and April, 1945.(!)....By no means
all the incidents were reported or, of those reported, brought to trial, and
the conviction rate was relatively low."(3)

"Reports of rape and robbery by U.S. troops piled up on the public
safety officers desk.."(4)

"The tension was greatest in areas where Negro troops were stationed,
since they....frequently interpreted efforts to curb prostitution as another
form of discrimination. In Kuenzelsau, Wuerttemberg, Negro soldiers of the
350th Field Artillery Battalion beat up the local jailer when he refused to
release prostitutes being held for venereal disease treatment. Later the whole
police in Kuenzelsau tried to resign after being threatened that they would be
killed if they interfered with the prostitutes."(5)

"Nearly all incidents involved liquor or women, often both. The
population of vagrant women-which the Army inadvertently increased after
November when it released penicillin for treating venereal diseases in German
women, thereby shortening for some the "turn around time" from jail
or hospital and attracting others who had been deterred by the fear of
infection-was often at the root of soldier attacks on German officials and
police....In one instance an American officer took an Austrian girl from Linz
to Stuttgart, raped her three times, and then transported her to Ulm, where he
turned her over to the military police on a charge of having improper papers."
(6)

"...the Negroes, believing they were not getting an equal share of the
women, nursed grudges against both the Germans and the white Americans."
(7)

Take note that these are cases which have been confirmed by the Allied
Occupation Authorities. Other reports may be offered to substantiate the above
in greater detail:

"From the east came the Bolshevized Mongolian and Slavic hordes,
repeatedly raping every captured woman and girl, contaminating them with
venereal diseases and impregnating them with a future race of Russo-German
bastards.

In the west the British used colonial troops, the French Sengalese and
Moroccans, the Americans an excessively high percentage of Negroes. Our own
method was not so direct as the Russian: ....we compelled women to yield their
virtue in order to live-to get food to eat, beds to sleep in, soap to bathe
with, roofs to shelter them." (8)

The following was related by a catholic priest concerning a letter which was
smuggled out of Breslau, Germany, September 3, 1945: "In unending
succession were girls, women and nuns violated....Not merely in secret, in
hidden corners, but in the sight of everybody, even in churches, in the streets
and in public places were nuns, women and even eight year old girls attacked
again and again. Mothers were violated before the eyes of their children;
girls in the presence of their brothers; nuns in the sight of pupils, were
outraged again and again to their very death even as corpses." (9)

Making the world "safe for democracy", when our "Russian
allies "liberated" Danzig they promptly liberated all the women of
their virtue and chastity-by raping all-from small girls to ladies as much as
83 years of age....When women of the city pleaded for protection, a Russian
officer told them to seek shelter in the Catholic Cathedral. After hundreds of
women and girls were securely inside, the brave sons of mother Russia entered
and "playing the organ and ringing the bells, kept up a foul orgy through
the night, raping all the women, some more than 30 times." (10)

According to Ralph Keeling, "The Russians were not alone in violating
these principles. Police records of Stuttgart show that during the French
occupation, 1,198 women were raped and eight men violated by French troops,
mostly Moroccans." (11)

According to the same source the average rate of venereal disease among
Negro troops stationed in the American occupation zone in Germany was an
amazing 771 per thousand! In attempting to explain this phenomenon to the
American public, Lee Hills, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily news
wrote:

"The other problem-and one so politically touchy that the war
Department is afraid to remedy-is the heavy use of Negro American troops. The
result, despite some superb Army leadership at the top, is that American
prestige has dropped from its V-E Day peak. The top men in Germany, almost
without exception, think its a mistake to have so many (42,000) Negro
troops here.....They have a higher crime rate, a venereal disease rate several
times that of the white soldier, and a worse record for mischief in
general...Frankly, the worst problem comes from our colored troops going with
white German girls. this stirs bitter hatred among German men. Many of our
own soldiers feel almost as strongly about it." (12)

There exists such a plethora of documentation regarding the mass rape of
German women and children that I must refer the reader to these sources, which
shall be included in a "recommended reading" section at the end of
this article. Now that we have demonstrated how German women were treated by
the allies, let us proceed to examine the treatment of children:

President Roosevelt again assumed the lead in directing allied policies in
regard to the treatment of German civilians. His policy was reflected in a
statement he uttered regarding the nourishment of the defeated. As Marie
Antoinette once said of the French citizenry, "Let them eat cake",
Roosevelts advice was "They should be fed three times a day with soup
from Army soup kitchens." (13)

As it turned out, the Germans were denied even this "luxury".
According to the book "The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany",
published by the Center of Military History, United States Army,...."military
government did not provide relief for German refugees, at this stage not even
for starving children." (14).

So here we are confronted with a direct admission from a government source
that starving German children were given no assistance whatsoever.
Consequently we can only assume that they were left to starve. Often these
children were orphaned. Their fathers were either deceased or else
languishing in a POW camp. The mothers had either been raped and murdered or
else victims of the appalling allied bombing offensive. If anything, allied
policy was consistent. For instance, during the first few months of allied
occupation in Berlin, typhus raged in the city, killing 65% of new-born babies.
This particular strain of typhus was labeled by the Berliners as "hunger
typhoid." Indeed, the death rate for infants rose to 660 per 1,000 in
July! It is clear that allied policies and politicians were responsible for
these outrages and crimes against humanity and against innocent children in
particular. The allies didnt "gas" them to death, which would
have been more humane. They simply allowed them to starve to death.

According to Douglas Botting, author of "From the Ruins of the Reich",
nineteen out of twenty babies died in the American Sector of Berlin in July
1945. According to the same source, in the British zone:

"The death rate of the very young and the very old reached a level not
seen since the Thirty Years War nearly three hundred years before: in August,
four thousand people died each day, compared with one hundred and fifty before
the war...the dead had to be transported by wooden carts or hand stretchers,
wrapped in rags or paper, as there were no coffins....there were still 53,000
orphans living like wild animals in holes in the ground, some of them one-eyed
or one-legged veterans of seven or so, many so deranged by the bombing and the
Russian attack that they screamed at the sight of any uniform, even a Salvation
army one." (14)

In view of the indescribable conditions noted above, the Americans
charitably authorized the addition of a piece of meat or fish "one half
the size of an egg"(!) when available. However, American servicemen were
receiving over 4,000 calories a day during this same period.

Jews and Jewish DPs received the next highest allotment: over 3,000
calories.

In the French zone conditions were even worse, if one can even imagine such
a scenario. All over Germany, children were suffering from rickets and little
bodies were covered with festering sores and boils, due to malnutrition,
starvation, neglect and abuse. Often they had no shoes and went for days on
end without a meal, while American soldiers carried out the orders of American
Occupation authorities and dumped thousands of gallons of milk in the trash,
rather than give it to the starving children. It was this incident more than
any other which aroused the righteous anger and indignation of General George
Patton, which resulted in the feud with Eisenhower, who relieved him of his
post.

In Bottings book, he quotes the statement of a British Officer named
Christopher Leefe who at the time was serving with the Green Howards in Berlin.
He relates the story of how a German youngster was apprehended stealing items
from the officers barracks in order to buy food. Instead of having
compassion on the boy, a Royal Major beat him repeatedly and unmercifully. The
boy was approximately 10 years old, "thin as a bean pole, clothes hanging
on him like sacks." The English bully struck this boy again and again
screaming, "YOU FU**ING LITTLE KRAUT!"

What is most disturbing about this event is that not one person interceded
on the boys behalf. What a particularly virulent hatred it is, to allow
something so deplorable to occur without so much as a protest. Mr. Leefe was
later quoted as saying:

"The point is that none of us could have cared a bit for that little
boy. He was probably an orphan, his father dead on the Eastern Front, his
mother rotting under the rubble of the bombed-out ruins, and here he
was-starving and risking his life climbing up drainpipes in the middle of a
British tank regiment. So what? We didnt feel any compassion for him or
any of the Germans. They had been public enemy number one. (!) So now we
commandeered their horses, commandeered their Mercedes, commandeered their
women. I would reckon that 60 or 70 percent of young Englishmen in Germany
thought that way. Most of us were for having a bloody good time and
believed we could get away with anything." (15)

Aside from the infants who were left to die en masse, the conditions under
which German youngsters were compelled to subsist were deplorable. If the
allies were unconcerned about the fate of infants, German teen-agers and
pre-adolescents fared no better-and often, their fates were worse than death.
German boys who were inducted into the home army during the last days of the
war received particularly brutal treatment at the hands of their captors. I
have viewed many photos of such youngsters after they were taken captives and
the condition they were in was unforgivable. Thin, pale, their faces bruised
and bloodied, these unfortunate youngsters were often "escorted" by
brutish looking military police twice their size. The book "Alliierte
Kreigsverbrechen und Verbrechen Gegen die Menschlichkeit" (Allied War
Crimes and Crimes against Humanity), re-published a photograph emanating from
American newspapers entitled "Hitler Youth Walks the Last Mile." The
photograph shows a youngster not any more than 13 or 14 years old being
escorted by MPs to a place of execution. The crime? "Suspicion"
of spying. No trial, no evidence....simply shot to death for "suspicion"
of spying. Why this youngster had to forfeit his life at the end of the war on
such a flimsy pretext will be a mystery I will never be able to fathom. Yet I
have already presented evidence of the brutal mistreatment a young boy of 10
suffered at the hands of the British, simply because he was starving.

American author Marguerite Higgins visited Germany during the time in
question and later wrote of her experiences. In her book, "News in an
singular thing" she described a visit to a GI "Interrogation Center"
:

"The GI led us to the main door of the camp...Behind the bars of the
cell we saw 3 uniformed Germans. Two of them, beaten and covered with blood,
were lying unconscious on the floor. A third German was lifted up by the hair
on his head, and I shall never forget, he had red hair like a carrot. A GI
turned his body over and struck him in the face. When the victim groaned, the
GI roared, "Shut your mouth, damned Kraut!" ....It turned out that for
almost a quarter of an hour, the doubled rows of 20 to 30 GIs stood
aligned taking turns methodically beating the six captured Germans...It came
out later that the worked-up GIs had captured six young German boys, who
had never even been members of the SS. The youngsters had only recently been
inducted into a government work battalion. The boy with the red hair was 14
years old. The other 5 German boys in the cell blocks were between 14 and 17
years old."

Should anyone think that this was only an isolated case, then I will offer
more evidence to prove that these beatings were endemic. These were not
isolated occurrences. In fact, they were commonplace. Non-revisionist
historians often take the position that such beatings never occurred, yet the
evidence is overwhelming. And if this was the treatment meted out to the
innocent-and to children in particular-it is only logical to assume that Nazis
accused of heinous crimes were treated far worse.

The book "Vorsicht! Faelschung!" reproduces a photograph of 2
German youngsters taken after their "interrogation" by Allied
investigators. The photo speaks for itself. The faces of the two youngsters
are bruised, swollen, and bloody. In conclusion, the episodes recounted above
for the benefit of the reader are only a small fraction among thousands of
documented cases. The policy of the allies is clear. It was their intention
to turn the entire German nation into one huge concentration camp. This policy
was enforced throughout the breadth of the land. Germanys youth were
left to starve and languish. Thousands of youngsters, homeless and parentless,
formed into "gangs" where they were forced to resort to crime simply
in order to live. Young children of both sexes were compelled to resort to
prostitution in order to buy a tidbit of food. The allies took no
responsibility for the horrors and suffering they imposed upon another nation,
nor have they ever apologized. In fact, when youngsters confessed to crimes
without any coercion, the Americans seemed quite disappointed, as is evidenced
by the following remark:

"The amusing thing about these youths and the Nazis we subsequently
questioned was their complete willingness to betray one another once they were
convinced that a friend had tattled, and it required very little "persuasion"
to convince them that they had been betrayed. To the disappointment of some of
our men, it was quite unnecessary to become physical in the interrogation."
(17)

Apparently it never occurred to the "interrogators" that some
people were simply taking the easy way out, rather than endure torture to
confess to false crimes.

Proceeding to part three of this report, we will now document cases of
torture and mistreatment of prisoners of war-particularly captured Waffen SS
members. Long before the Nuremberg Trials even began, the allies looked upon
the SS as a criminal organization. They also happened to be the most
determined adversaries of the allied forces, and offered the most resistance.

Allied casualties were generally much higher whenever they were thrown into
combat opposite seasoned SS troops. Consequently the SS were both feared and
admired for their military prowess. The allies feared that the SS would
continue to offer armed underground resistance to the occupational authorities,
therefore they determined to thoroughly disband and discredit this able
military force before the eyes of not only the world, but of the German people
as well. Consequently, the members of the SS received the most brutal
treatment at the hands of the allied forces. Often accused of war crimes and
crimes against humanity, the allies sought to expunge the very memory of this
elite Nazi formation. The truth of the matter is that the Waffen SS was no
more criminal than any other fighting unit, allied OR axis, and the treatment
its members received at the hands of the allies was unjust and often
criminal. Since SS members were stationed at concentration camps as guards,
the allies took advantage of this fact and used it to condemn the members of
the SS as a whole. Of course it should go without saying that simply because
someone was a guard at a camp does not mean he or she was a criminal. What
follows is a series of reports concerning the treatment Waffen SS soldiers
received at the hands of the allies. All documentation is taken from the book
"Alliierte Kreigsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit."